Boiledbeans

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August 2010

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Lets choose the middle

—devadutta @ 23:40

First, a big round of applause to Logik for recording an unbeaten run-length of 50! You get this %soh% shiny badge, sire!

This questions is what some people refer to as “an old chestnut” :)

Which term in computer science is a reference to the " holy war" between inhabitants of the two Islands shown below?

The root-cause of the war was about how to break this

Cracked by: Atul Mathew, raklodramA, Manish Achuth, Rogi, Dibyo, Bheema V, v.chandrashekar, Bipin Banavalikar, shrik, Rahul Rajeev, jowens, krudebox, SV, Gurupad, Logik, Ananth, Anjul, Raghuvansh, Xanda, username, Bharath, Nanda, ht, parameswaran, Thejas V R, lanu, Shwetha Maiya, byslexia, Vinay Nair Karath, Qbrain, udupendra, Sumanth Patlolla, Siddarth Pai, nishansolo, Inglourious, dineshk, akhi, vijayaraghavan, Rahulk and kapinjal

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The terms little endian and big endian’s etymological roots can be traced to the book “Gulliver’s Travels” where people from the islands of Lilliput and Blefuscu fight a holy war because they cannot agree upon which side a boiled egg has to be broken from.


Monday, August 30, 2010

Ha Ha!-ic

—srikanth @ 23:59

These are examples of a certain class of devices (x) manufactured by a certain company (y). x & y?

Cracked by udupendra, username, vijayaraghavan, jowens, Bharath, shrik, Rogi, Ananth, Manish Achuth, Gurupad, raklodramA, lanu, Thejas V R, Dibyo, Bheema V, v.chandrashekar, Rahul Rajeev, krudebox, Logik, Qbrain and Shwetha Maiya


Sunday, August 29, 2010

The future is here?

—devadutta @ 23:59

Identify and connect.

We sent out mails to Boiledbeans t-shirt winners today. We do not have working email IDs for the following people.

username
Auysh Agarwal
vinay.tk

Please send an email to [email protected]

Cracked by: prasanth, Girish, shrik, udupendra, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, krudebox, Logik, Gurupad, Rahul Rajeev, nishansolo, vijayaraghavan, Rogi, Ananth, Bharath, jowens, byslexia, Jean Valjean, v.chandrashekar, Rahulk, username, Anurag Sharma, Chaitanya, lanu, Bheema V, Qbrain, Bipin Banavalikar, Dibyo, raklodramA, joe, Xanda, Thejas V R and Shwetha Maiya

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Marty McFly wears a self lacing shoe in “Back to the future part 2” which was recently patented by Nike. They will probably bring it to production soon.


Saturday, August 28, 2010

They're getting faster!

—srikanth @ 23:59

What’s the name of the artist responsible?

Cracked by everyone.

shrik, Vasanth Kamath, Prateek Agarwal, Ananth, Logik, Jean Valjean, Dibyo, Rogi, Girish, lanu, udupendra, Rahul Rajeev, Manish Achuth, krudebox, jowens, Thejas V R, Qbrain, Bheema V, Bharath, Shwetha Maiya and Rahulk


Friday, August 27, 2010

http://guitarist.

—srikanth @ 23:59

Fully framed guest question from logik!
W - founded by the people shown in (1)
X - The company that currently runs W.
The speaker adopted a very famous nickname Y, in reference to a section in the book (3) ..
Give me W, and Y

Cracked by udupendra, Logik, Manish Achuth, Rogi, shrik, Bharath, Raghuvansh, Dibyo, Qbrain, Girish, lanu, Rahulk, jowens and Thejas V R.

Check out Logik’s comment for the answer, of course :)


Thursday, August 26, 2010

Question asking question

—devadutta @ 23:59

Simple. Lego recreation of which masterpiece?

Cracked by: Logik, Gurupad, Ananth, Goyal, SV, shrik, byslexia, Bheema V, Girish, krudebox, Manish Achuth, Rogi, Bharath, Anjul, username, v.chandrashekar, Dibyo, dheeraj, Vasanth Kamath, Vardhan Shenoy, Rahulk, Qbrain, dineshk, Rahul Rajeev, vijayaraghavan, lanu and Jean Valjean

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Ascending and Descending by M.C. Escher


Wednesday, August 25, 2010

TRUE.

—srikanth @ 23:59

Identify this husband-and-wife couple - who together run a famous website (that has stopped many an email forward in its tracks :p) :

A very roundabout clue below. Pseudobonus points for identifying how the clue links to the question :)

Cracked by Logik, Gurupad, shrik, Girish, krudebox, byslexia, SV, Rogi, dineshk, Raghuvansh, Manish Achuth, Ananth, v.chandrashekar, username, Vasanth Kamath, Smitha R Maiya, Rahulk, Qbrain, lanu, Shwetha Maiya, raklodramA, Thejas V R, Dibyo, Prateek Agarwal, udupendra, ht, joe, Atul Mathew, Sumanth Patlolla, Bharath, Rahul Rajeev, Bheema V and Vardhan Shenoy


Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Who is it?

—devadutta @ 23:59

Company X that manufactured computers like the one below has its name in the history books as the first to “register” something. What?

Cracked by: username, Ananth, shrik, Rogi, Raghuvansh, Manish Achuth, Sumanth Patlolla, krudebox, Dibyo, raklodramA, Nanda, Shwetha Maiya, Rahulk, lanu, Qbrain, Vasanth Kamath, Rahul Rajeev, Vardhan Shenoy, Bheema V, udupendra, SV, Bharath, Gurupad, Logik, dineshk, v.chandrashekar, Thejas V R, mankuTimma and nishansolo


Monday, August 23, 2010

Star Wars

—srikanth @ 23:59

Fully-framed question from udupendra!

(1) was built. In response, (2) was built. What are they?

Got a question? Send it to [email protected]!

Cracked by yevvryone.

Plz to be seeing udupendra’s reply for the answer straight from the horse’s mouth.

udupendra, Logik, Raghuvansh, Ananth, Aparna, nishansolo, Dibyo, Rogi, shrik, Manish Achuth, krudebox, Nanda, Goyal, raklodramA, Girish, Thejas V R, Prateek Agarwal, username, Sumanth Patlolla, Vasanth Kamath, Qbrain, Vardhan Shenoy, Vishnu, Rahul Rajeev, Bharath, Gurupad, dineshk, Bheema V, Aditya Sridhar, Rahulk, Shwetha Maiya, ht, lanu, Vinay Nair Karath, SV and v.chandrashekar


Monday, August 23, 2010

The 300 Man

—devadutta @ 00:02

A big round of applause to Rogi** **for recording an unbeaten run-length of 300! Just Amazing! Keep it up!

In other updates, we were looking through the usage stats of bbPlay and looks like a lot of you like it! So we were thrilled and we have refreshed bbPlay with some major bug-fixes and added a few nice new features. Go ahead and click on the Play! button and you will notice

  1. You can now reach the post from inside bbPlay by clicking on the title
  2. Images are un-clickable. This was a major pain, sorry about having that bug there in the first place :)

The exciting new feature we have is that now you can tell us if you like a question by pressing **“l” ( l for like ) **within bbPlay and your vote will be registered. We will be displaying how many people liked a question and other stats shortly. Until then, you can just vote :)

Go ahead, Play and hit “l” to see for yourself :)
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